Opera Eats Up CPU to 100% - HELP !!!!

Opera Eats Up CPU to 100% - HELP !!!!

i'm on opera 11.52 (thank god and i wont upgrade). and when i run opera, my cpu cycles up to 100%!! i tried reducing cache and disk size. but this doesnt work. why is this shit happening? how do i fix this?

Are you sure it's Opera chugging away at your CPU and not flash player, Java script or some badly configured web site ?.

hi LinuxMint7.. wow.. i think youre right.. when i turned off java script then restarted opera, CPU went down to 0% or 5% tops. but i need java script for youtube and other sites.. what do you suggest?

I'm on 11.62 and still have Opera randomly going to 99% CPU usage as well. It happened some time in the snapshots before 11.62 was released, but I wasn't able to pin anything down. I've gotten it both on flash and javascript heavy pages (like Gmail) but also on sites where all the flash and ads are blocked. Unless flash is loading despite being blocked, I'm at a loss to explain why this version runs so hot while the previous builds didn't exhibit this behaviour.

I'm only running an Athlon XP 2700+ single core, so when Opera goes crazy, everything slows to a crawl.

Originally posted by NedTheNanite:

I'm on 11.62 and still have Opera randomly going to 99% CPU usage as well. It happened some time in the snapshots before 11.62 was released, but I wasn't able to pin anything down. I've gotten it both on flash and javascript heavy pages (like Gmail) but also on sites where all the flash and ads are blocked. Unless flash is loading despite being blocked, I'm at a loss to explain why this version runs so hot while the previous builds didn't exhibit this behaviour.

I'm only running an Athlon XP 2700+ single core, so when Opera goes crazy, everything slows to a crawl.

yeah i dont understand this either. its strange. thats why i'm running 11.52.. i wont touch that piece of shit 11.62.. total garbage.

I've been having the same problem as well with no solution as of yet. Even just opening to Speed Dial shoots CPU usage up to 100% on Process Explorer. I've been an Opera user for about 15 years, but this problem has switched me to Firefox for the last few months (like now). Just can't handle the slowdown caused by Opera.

I solved the problem. I discovered that a page was updating twitter feeds. When I closed that tab, the CPU usage dropped to normal, and the lagging that occurred when trying to type into gmail also disappeared.

Originally posted by legaltender:

I solved the problem. I discovered that a page was updating twitter feeds. When I closed that tab, the CPU usage dropped to normal, and the lagging that occurred when trying to type into gmail also disappeared.

what i did was to close many tabs i had opened.. that reduced my cpu dramatically.. thank god.

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by legaltender:

I solved the problem. I discovered that a page was updating twitter feeds. When I closed that tab, the CPU usage dropped to normal, and the lagging that occurred when trying to type into gmail also disappeared.

what i did was to close many tabs i had opened.. that reduced my cpu dramatically.. thank god.

But that's not fixing the problem, which is that the open tabs are eating up your CPU when they probably shouldn't be. A good example is Gmail often makes mine run at 99%, but it's random. Sometimes it does it straight away, sometimes not. But I can't close the tab if I'm reading/writing my mail, so I'm stuck with the CPU hogging until I can close out everything.

It wasn't like that before so it shouldn't be like this now.

Originally posted by NedTheNanite:

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by legaltender:

I solved the problem. I discovered that a page was updating twitter feeds. When I closed that tab, the CPU usage dropped to normal, and the lagging that occurred when trying to type into gmail also disappeared.

what i did was to close many tabs i had opened.. that reduced my cpu dramatically.. thank god.

But that's not fixing the problem, which is that the open tabs are eating up your CPU when they probably shouldn't be. A good example is Gmail often makes mine run at 99%, but it's random. Sometimes it does it straight away, sometimes not. But I can't close the tab if I'm reading/writing my mail, so I'm stuck with the CPU hogging until I can close out everything.

no offense, but what you said doesnt make sense. you said that my closing out many tabs i had opened doesnt solve the problem when in fact it did. i dont know why you say it doesnt when i got the proof staring in front of me.

I think what Ned's getting at is that the open tabs ought not to cause the problem in the first place. If there is some kind of multiple-tab-related memory leak or rising-CPU problem going on at times within the Opera design, the design is where the problem should be solved. Closing tabs isn't a "solution", it simply breaks the loop or hides the symptoms that shouldn't happen in the first place. Of course, as a user, you have to do what works for you at the moment.

Originally posted by blackbird71:

I think what Ned's getting at is that the open tabs ought not to cause the problem in the first place. If there is some kind of multiple-tab-related memory leak or rising-CPU problem going on at times within the Opera design, the design is where the problem should be solved. Closing tabs isn't a "solution", it simply breaks the loop or hides the symptoms that shouldn't happen in the first place. Of course, as a user, you have to do what works for you at the moment.

again, what youre saying doenst make sense. if you got 40 tabs open, obviously opera will eat up cpu 100%. its like haivng 40 windows open.. and again, closing tabs IS THE SOLUTION. it worked for me and ten thousand other people experiencing the same issue.

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by blackbird71:

I think what Ned's getting at is that the open tabs ought not to cause the problem in the first place. If there is some kind of multiple-tab-related memory leak or rising-CPU problem going on at times within the Opera design, the design is where the problem should be solved. Closing tabs isn't a "solution", it simply breaks the loop or hides the symptoms that shouldn't happen in the first place. Of course, as a user, you have to do what works for you at the moment.

again, what youre saying doenst make sense. if you got 40 tabs open, obviously opera will eat up cpu 100%. its like haivng 40 windows open.. and again, closing tabs IS THE SOLUTION. it worked for me and ten thousand other people experiencing the same issue.

Hmm. I've run across a number of postings in these forums that complain that having just a couple of tabs open causes this same effect for some users, in which case it implies either something in certain kinds of tabs or within Opera itself doesn't agree with Opera's digestive system (in terms of use of CPU and/or memory). If (and that remains an "if") it's an Opera issue, then closing tabs is not really the "solution".

But obviously, when the number of open tabs gets large, the CPU and/or memory consumption is apt to go up as well, at least for some users (there are enough factors dependent on different users' system variables, it's hard to make a broad generalization). And in those cases, closing tabs can be an answer. My concern is focused on the recurring complaints of rising or large memory and/or CPU consumption in the 11.6x family, regardless of the tab count (or particulary with low tab count)... and its one of the primary reasons I'm still reluctant to upgrade to that series on my systems.

Originally posted by blackbird71:

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by blackbird71:

I think what Ned's getting at is that the open tabs ought not to cause the problem in the first place. If there is some kind of multiple-tab-related memory leak or rising-CPU problem going on at times within the Opera design, the design is where the problem should be solved. Closing tabs isn't a "solution", it simply breaks the loop or hides the symptoms that shouldn't happen in the first place. Of course, as a user, you have to do what works for you at the moment.

again, what youre saying doenst make sense. if you got 40 tabs open, obviously opera will eat up cpu 100%. its like haivng 40 windows open.. and again, closing tabs IS THE SOLUTION. it worked for me and ten thousand other people experiencing the same issue.

Hmm. I've run across a number of postings in these forums that complain that having just a couple of tabs open causes this same effect for some users, in which case it implies either something in certain kinds of tabs or within Opera itself doesn't agree with Opera's digestive system (in terms of use of CPU and/or memory). If (and that remains an "if") it's an Opera issue, then closing tabs is not really the "solution".

But obviously, when the number of open tabs gets large, the CPU and/or memory consumption is apt to go up as well, at least for some users (there are enough factors dependent on different users' system variables, it's hard to make a broad generalization). And in those cases, closing tabs can be an answer. My concern is focused on the recurring complaints of rising or large memory and/or CPU consumption in the 11.6x family, regardless of the tab count (or particulary with low tab count)... and its one of the primary reasons I'm still reluctant to upgrade to that series on my systems.

i symphathize with your comment. thats why i'm still on 11.52 and completely refuse to upgrade to 11.6x. and thats because in higher versions, there are cpu issues, limited customizations, and the look and feel of opera has changed. i think the opera devs have become bored and in competing with other browsers, decided to implement unnecessary bullshit add-ons into opera. and unfortunately, facebook is thinking about buying opera... another bad blow to a great browser. if that happens, expect opera to be bloated and behave slowly.. i can see it happen.

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by blackbird71:

I think what Ned's getting at is that the open tabs ought not to cause the problem in the first place. If there is some kind of multiple-tab-related memory leak or rising-CPU problem going on at times within the Opera design, the design is where the problem should be solved. Closing tabs isn't a "solution", it simply breaks the loop or hides the symptoms that shouldn't happen in the first place. Of course, as a user, you have to do what works for you at the moment.

again, what youre saying doenst make sense. if you got 40 tabs open, obviously opera will eat up cpu 100%. its like haivng 40 windows open.. and again, closing tabs IS THE SOLUTION. it worked for me and ten thousand other people experiencing the same issue.

I typically have over 50 tabs open, and it doesn't eat up the CPU. But, one bad tab will max the CPU out. Again, I found it was caused by a webpage updating twitter feeds. The updating occurred about once a second or so, which caused annoying lags when I typed.

Of course, this should not be happening, it is a design error.

Originally posted by legaltender:

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by blackbird71:

I think what Ned's getting at is that the open tabs ought not to cause the problem in the first place. If there is some kind of multiple-tab-related memory leak or rising-CPU problem going on at times within the Opera design, the design is where the problem should be solved. Closing tabs isn't a "solution", it simply breaks the loop or hides the symptoms that shouldn't happen in the first place. Of course, as a user, you have to do what works for you at the moment.

again, what youre saying doenst make sense. if you got 40 tabs open, obviously opera will eat up cpu 100%. its like haivng 40 windows open.. and again, closing tabs IS THE SOLUTION. it worked for me and ten thousand other people experiencing the same issue.

I typically have over 50 tabs open, and it doesn't eat up the CPU. But, one bad tab will max the CPU out. Again, I found it was caused by a webpage updating twitter feeds. The updating occurred about once a second or so, which caused annoying lags when I typed.

Of course, this should not be happening, it is a design error.

i dont believe you. but in case its true, you probly got a very fast computer.

Originally posted by blackbird71:

I think what Ned's getting at is that the open tabs ought not to cause the problem in the first place. If there is some kind of multiple-tab-related memory leak or rising-CPU problem going on at times within the Opera design, the design is where the problem should be solved. Closing tabs isn't a "solution", it simply breaks the loop or hides the symptoms that shouldn't happen in the first place. Of course, as a user, you have to do what works for you at the moment.

That's exactly what I meant and I apologise for not being more clear.

I've routinely had upwards of 40 tabs open at once in older versions without the CPU sitting at 100%, and I'm on a stone ancient Athlon XP 2700 CPU on a 9 year old computer. It might float around 25-40% depending on how complex the pages are, but it's only hitting 100% when certain web pages are loaded and it doesn't matter if it's 1 tab or 100, it shouldn't be 100% in this build when it was only 5-10% or even 2% in 11.54 or 12.00. That's an issue with 11.64 and I'm not sure they're even aware it exists.

I have to wonder if most users don't notice because they're on multicore systems and one core pegged at 100% is not bogging down anything else because the other cores pick up the slack. It may not hurt THEIR experience but if they're on laptops, surely it's a battery drain!

I'm not seeing the CPU issue in the 12.00 beta, so they may be just expecting us all to upgrade to solve this problem. Whatever the problem is, it does not affect the copy of 11.64 that I use in Linux, only Windows.

Same problem with Opera 12. Downgraded to 11.64, still same problem...I am back to firefox

Fede

Originally posted by forumfede:

Same problem with Opera 12. Downgraded to 11.64, still same problem...I am back to firefox

Fede

thats not good.. thank god i'm still in 11.52.. any version higher and i'll be very disappointed. whats wrong with the opera devs? can someone wake these idiots up to actually improve opera?

I downgraded from version 12 to 11.64. Opera plugin wrapper(disappeared from task manager) is no where to be found when I open a youtube video, and cpu was cut DRASTICALLY

Originally posted by iviperv:

I downgraded from version 12 to 11.64. Opera plugin wrapper(disappeared from task manager) is no where to be found when I open a youtube video, and cpu was cut DRASTICALLY

good for you.. more opera users should downgrade their versions. i dont know why opera ignores this factor in later releases.

Originally posted by fixthis:

Try closing all the tabs and disabling all the extensions.

i disabled many tabs.. and i uninstalled one extension. it reduced cpu consumption dramatically.. ut at times, cpu waves from 0% - 24%.. and when i play youtube vids i get 65% - 95%.. i dont know if this is normal for youtube vids.

"one bad tab will max the CPU out."

I'm too familiar with that as I also often have 50 (or more) tabs open.

It would help us diagnose which tab has the CPU problem
if each tab had a filled / unfilled color / transparency to indicate CPU use by that specific tab.
I can even imagine a tab that adjusts dynamically as its CPU load changes.

That would let us instantly identify which tab has the problem.

PS I also just downgraded to 11.62 from 12 because yahoo wouldn't show messages.

This problem persists in 12.01. There seems to be no way to fix it.

My solution was to download the latest Opera Next alpha. 12.50 i think. It works like a charm. No more cpu-hogging, everything is fast and smooth. Yes there are the occasional crashes but I'd say it's great.

So instead of downgrading I can suggest going to the 12.50 alpha instead.

Here
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

i got version 11.52 and so far its the best browser. far better than 12.01.

Hey taurusx5 - Try what Riddermark suggested (12.50-1546) and you may find yourself hedging blanket assessment testimonials. Change is good

Originally posted by CraigPD:

Hey taurusx5 - Try what Riddermark suggested (12.50-1546) and you may find yourself hedging blanket assessment testimonials. Change is good

hell no!!! i'm happy with this old version.. best out there. and every new version that comes out i find myself disappointed. after 11.52, opera sucks big time.

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by CraigPD:

Hey taurusx5 - Try what Riddermark suggested (12.50-1546) and you may find yourself hedging blanket assessment testimonials. Change is good

hell no!!! i'm happy with this old version.. best out there. and every new version that comes out i find myself disappointed. after 11.52, opera sucks big time.

Same experience here with version 12,01 in two computer - vista and windows 7. Freeze with facebook and heavy pages, freeze with flash videos - youtube, dailymotion - use a lot of memory and CPU, even with just one or two tabs open. A real crap.

I had to downgrade to 11,52 version, and everything work fine - some slowdowns with facebook, but it's workable.

I don't like firefox - too heavy in memory, to slow - but Opera become crapier than that one.

I watch the development of Chrome. Not enough features for me, but it work well and fast. I think i will switch to it if opera continue that way. I use Opera since 12 years...

Please, wake up guys. You're killing the best browser on the market. The 12,01 version is the worst. Even ie is better ! Come on !

Originally posted by thibod:

Same experience here with version 12,01 in two computer - vista and windows 7. Freeze with facebook and heavy pages, freeze with flash videos - youtube, dailymotion - use a lot of memory and CPU, even with just one or two tabs open. A real crap.

I had to downgrade to 11,52 version, and everything work fine - some slowdowns with facebook, but it's workable.

Please, wake up guys. You're killing the best browser on the market. The 12,01 version is the worst. Even ie is better ! Come on !

i completely agree.. the opera devs have become stupid with releasing more junk in higher versions. i have no slow downs at all in version 11.52. i've used opera for 11 years now. and i do agree with you that opera 12.01 SUCKS!!! you cant even customize it like you used to in previous versions.

Am I the only one for whom 12.01 eliminated the CPU issues? I didn't even do a clean install, just an upgrade, and so far it seems to be fine for me. One thing I did recently was downgrade from the newest Flash to an older version because it was so choppy (in Opera; unplayable in Chrome or Firefox). Between those two things, the CPU-hogging tab issue seems to have abated. And I'd notice as I've only got the one core!

You all talk about downgrading to 11.5x/6x. Why not upgrade, to the Next version? To me, that is almost always running way better.

I have the same problem. Where do you find the "Opera 12.50-1546" on the website? I went back to 11.64 and still have the problem. Thanks!!

On the Opera Desktop Team Blog - 12.50-1546

Originally posted by rock2top13:

I have the same problem. Where do you find the "Opera 12.50-1546" on the website? I went back to 11.64 and still have the problem. Thanks!!

damn! you guys are still debating this??!! get an older version of opera and thats it! forget about the newer stupid versions of opera.

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by rock2top13:

I have the same problem. Where do you find the "Opera 12.50-1546" on the website? I went back to 11.64 and still have the problem. Thanks!!

damn! you guys are still debating this??!! get an older version of opera and thats it! forget about the newer stupid versions of opera.

Damn it again. Opera Next NOW is 12.10. The old 12.50 has been renamed 12.10. And pretty much all of your annoyances you had with v12 have been resolved in v12.10. And 12.10 performs the same or better than 11.xx=, whether it's hardware accelerated or not. So go for it .

Except the one core thing. That's the arhitecture.

Originally posted by Acryion:

Originally posted by taurusx5:

Originally posted by rock2top13:

I have the same problem. Where do you find the "Opera 12.50-1546" on the website? I went back to 11.64 and still have the problem. Thanks!!

damn! you guys are still debating this??!! get an older version of opera and thats it! forget about the newer stupid versions of opera.

Damn it again. Opera Next NOW is 12.10. The old 12.50 has been renamed 12.10. And pretty much all of your annoyances you had with v12 have been resolved in v12.10. And 12.10 performs the same or better than 11.xx=, whether it's hardware accelerated or not. So go for it .

Except the one core thing. That's the arhitecture.

Not for me. Yhe 12.10 version is even slower with facebook and have more memory leaks...

Had to downgrade to 11.52.

Where is my ligth and fast opera ? 4 years ago, i had and old computer with windows 98 and 64MB of ram, and opera was working like a charm on that ! Now, opera have slowdowns with a recent computer having 2GB of memory !

I had a similar problem and posted my solution here: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=12807902

Summarizing, there is a file called "browser.js" inside your Opera profile directory, which in my system is located at /home/username/.opera/browser.js, but is in a different place in Windows, and I have no idea where, because I don't have Windows around. This file contains an endless loop for Google websites that will make your CPU usage go up to 100%. The solution is removing that piece of Javascript from that file. It is the block beginning with "if(hostname.indexOf('.google.')>-1)"

Originally posted by teresaejunior:

I had a similar problem and posted my solution here: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=12807902

Summarizing, there is a file called "browser.js" inside your Opera profile directory, which in my system is located at /home/username/.opera/browser.js, but is in a different place in Windows, and I have no idea where, because I don't have Windows around. This file contains an endless loop for Google websites that will make your CPU usage go up to 100%. The solution is removing that piece of Javascript from that file. It is the block beginning with "if(hostname.indexOf('.google.')>-1)"

Curious, I checked the browser.js file for the block you referenced. I saw this at the top of the file, though:

** This script patches sites to work better with Opera ** For more information see http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/ ** ** If you have comments on these patches (for example if you are the webmaster ** and want to inform us about a fixed site that no longer needs patching) please ** report issues through the bug tracking system ** https://bugs.opera.com/ ** ** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! It will not be used by Opera if edited.

'nix users: /home/username/.opera/browser.js
windoze ewesers: c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Opera\Opera\browser.js

Ah! So in a quick scan, it seems that browser.js is why there is a bubblegum, bandaids, rubber bands, and duct tape shortage in the Opera Dev Team dungeon. It exists to make a big pile of heavily visited, dog crap web sites behave in Opera. If edited, it will not be used by Opera at all. But, maybe that's not such a bad thing. I dunno. I do wonder though, couldn't the file be edited (remove the Google goo and other smegma), renamed, and be placed in the userjs folder in the event there is something actually useful in it?

So, it's probably a good idea to read this:
http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/

Maybe this behavior has changed. I have visited the mentioned page and it says the following:

Current browser.js status: enabled.
Target version and time stamp of the active browser.js file is Opera Desktop 12.01 core 2.10.289, October 8, 2012. Active patches: 262 .

The only problem I encountered so far is that this file is overwritten every time I upgrade Opera, so I just remove the offending block again.

When I was an Opera noob (now I'm a geek ), I actually filled a bug report under Menu > Help > Report problem on this website..., but I didn't get an email telling me how to update the status of the bug, just like the one we receive when reporting with the Wizard. When I found the solution to the bug, I posted it on the forums, but was lazy to report a new one (I'm still lazy to do it ).

I decided to browse mobile version of facebook because of this CPU problem. Fastest website ever! ROFL.

This may help. I upgraded Opera on my work computer today and tried to see if facebook browsing was better at it compared to my laptop at home. To my surprise it was very good. I got curious: could it be related to hardware?

I came home and I decided to change my display adapter's settings. I have a radeon graphics card on my laptop, which I know is very good. So, I set texture quality, antialising etc setting to performance/high performance and facebook scrolling problem disappeared.